By 2050, scientists expect higher temperatures to make people less active. This could harm human health and the economy.

Rising temperatures due to climate change could drive millions more adults globally into physical inactivity by 2050, being linked to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and billions of dollars ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years ...

An El Niño event combined with other weather phenomena led to record level sea rise in African oceans during 2023 and 2024.

Many philosophers have noticed the similarities between environmental damage and the puzzle of the self-torturer.

A new study shows that forest thinning not only protects against wildfires, but also helps conserve water and replenish the existing natural and human-made reservoirs.

Trump’s call to “drill baby drill,” along with his repealing of regulations on fossil fuel emissions and on limits of gas and oil drilling, mining, and deforestation, will severely increase the ...

The Free Press likes to publish provocative takes that punch holes in established ideologies. When that ethos is applied to the subject of climate change, the result is a largely one-sided perspective ...

A potentially strong El Niño weather pattern will likely emerge this summer and persist through the rest of the year. The ...

The National Weather Service has received at least six reports of potential record-breaking hailstones in Illinois, ranging ...

Global warming may be speeding up, with temperatures rising faster since 2015 and recent record-hot years reflecting a steeper climate trend.

The target of the 2015 Paris Agreement was to keep global temperatures to less than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. In February, the planet was just 0.1C shy of that.